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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Or.) 1903-1931 | View Entire Issue (July 24, 1912)
PAGE . TI1H BKNI NUM.KTIN, IIKND. WKDNKHDAY, Jt'I.Y J) I, 1RIU. I If THE BEND BULLETIN OKOUOK PAI.MKU PUTNAM Editor and Publisher. U. N. IIOFTMAN Managing tidltor. An Independent nowspapor stand ing for tho square- deal, clean busi ness, clean politics and tho bent In terests of lVnd and Central Oregon. One year 1.C0 Six months 80 Three months BO All subscriptions are duo and. PAYAM.K IN ADVANCE. Notlco uf expiration will t mailed suhscrl-i- and If renewal Is not made with In reasonable tlmo tho paper will bo discontinued. Please notify us promptly of any change of address, or of failure to ro celvo tho paper regularly. Make all cheeks and orders pay able to ltond Itultettn. WKDNHSUAY. JULY . 1012. I.KT'S lilt KUl.l'ISU. "TIm ttms has eome whon tho busi ness won of SoaUte inunt bo aroused to Ue actual conditions which now prcTall In this city and meet the Issue precisely as has been done In three of tho most promlneut cities of tho la cltlc Coast. "It Is a fact thai until about one year ago tho growth and prospcrly of this city wcro so Rroat that scarcely one business man in the city thought of anyhtng else except his own prog ress and profits. "From July. 1S97. when tho 'gold ship' touched tho wharres of Seattle, until September, 1910 a period of more than thirteen years the busi ness men of Seattle were simply vy ing with each other In the amounts of profits they could make, without being required to put forth a solitary effort to obtain additional business. "it took less than twetve months of "reform polities, however, to stop the march of progress and turn the tldo of prosperity and success In fa vor of Portland and los Angeles and. over since that occurred those cltlM have been In tho lead. "Now the business men of Seattle realise perhaps tor the first time that while Seattle was making her wonderful history of financial prog res, other cities were working with might and mala to scure a portion of that which seemed to be coming to Seattle In a mighty stream. "New tho business inon of Seattle find that In onler to indue Industrial orgaBliatton to locate In this city and beoomo a part of Its upbuilding, great effort must be made ou tho part of the Chamber of Commerce nnd its subsidiary organisations, and tho most flattetlns inducements offered." "White raiment is an asset to Se attle. It has been tried, with re sults most gratifying to all concerned. When tho SMttle legions descended upon Portland last week they took with them the Potlatch clothes, and today they are Barkening to praises from all parts of the Pacific North west, praise of Seattto's enterprise anil MBltr of action. Other cities made an Impression: but the popular verdict U that Seattle, with Its delo- KatioM in white suits, oarrled away tho honors of Portland's week of fes tivity." The foregoing quotations were tak en from the editorial pago of a recent issue or a Seattle newspaper. They are significant All prosperity comes in wares; and each oity has Its stead ily recurrent periods of activity and rest. Nothing can entirely prevent this natural obb and flow in the growth of cities; but much can be done to prolong the periods of prog ress and to shorten and mako pleas ant the halts by tho way. Tho Seattle papers seem to lay the blame for tho recent stagnation and In passing It might be well to remark that what Soattlo calls stagnation, on Eastern olty would call rapid growth entirely upon the "reform ele ment" In tho city's politics. This Is wrong. Unwlso political restraint is not what was the matter with Se attle. Tho cause of the lull of the last, two years was simply narrow selfishness. The phrase Is carefully selected. In all of our work wo must of neces sity be selfish. If we wero not, our usefulness would soon bo at an end. Hut there are two kinds of uolfiah nesM. One Is narrow, the selfishness of the miser; and tho other Is broad, the selfishness of men like James J. Hill. Narrow selSshness Is contemp tible; and If It does not always fall, it docs at least fall to accomplish more than a tithe of what It might. . The speculator who buys land, holding It all unimproved, and waits uutll you and I are compelled to buy It for our homes or our Indus tries at one hundred times what he paid for It; tho merchant who would rather sell one article at a profit of f 2.00 than sell Ave articles at a( prof it of f ltPOj tho "prominent cltUcn" to whom a stranger carries an intro duction, and who unloads upon that " '.v . stranger at an exorbitant profit soma security or property that ho could sell only at a narrow margin to n townsman Acquainted with tho facts; tho barber who "soaks" the emhnr rnssod nnd unsophisticated country man with all tho concoctions undor tho mirror and then "soaks" htm also for seven dollars; tho hotels and restaurants that advance, their prices whenever n convention comes to town: tho "public-spirited" cltlious who, because of their prominence In Commercial Club, Hoard nf Trade nr Chamber of Commerce, know of tho largo transactions that affect tho city's growth, and who, whon they hear that itn Immense corporation contemplates tho purchase of tho only available, site for a plant to cost mil lions and employ thousands of men in It, quietly buy that site, quadruple Its price, and in trying' to make a fabulous profit only succeed In driv ing the corpointlon to another town; these aro tho policies that wero re sponsible for tho condition of Soattlo; find It Is the reverse of those policies thnt Is now bringing Seattle to tho fore. The "Ad Club." the "Tllllkuma" tho llotary Club, the Arctic Club, tho Commercial Club, tho Potlatch As sociation, tho Chamber of Commerce and many other municipal organisa tions, few If any of which existed flvo years ago, aro pormentlng tho whole business atmosphere of tho city with a spirit or good-will, enthu siasm, advertising, fair dealing, clean competition, hospitality to the new comer and helpfulness, especially on the part or men to men In their own lino of work, men who a few years ago would have been opjiosed and re pelled as competitors. Thrco differ ent Seattle firms recently bid on n piece of work. To each tho other two wcro montloned as competitors; and each of tho three praised tho other two, and did It heartily and sin cerely. This Is selfish. It makes a good Impression nnd gets each of theso men more business than he could get by any other method. Tlut Is It not tho most dllllcult nnd de llghful seMshneu In the world? Nearly every city has made the mistake that was made by Seattle; hut few have so nobly and promptly realized their error and risen to tho dofence of their municipal reputation. All this Is selfish; but It is hardly more selfish than patriotism. Is al most as admirable, and Is closely akin to It this broad, unselfish sel fishness that docs big things. Let's bo selfish. Let's profit by tho experience of other cities, make fowor mistakes and more successes. Wo havo already made a better start than any city we know of. Let's be selfish. Philanthropy is alt right; but less of It would bo nccossary If mora deals wrro made like one mado recently In fiend. The kind or thing that counts Is when a man has faith and tho means and Industry to ce ment tho interests of sevoral citizens by entering Into a campaign or years to Induce COO or moro people to In vest In Bond, collect $125,000 from widespread sources and spend the whole of It. $75,000 In llend and ISO 000 outside, before he makes one cent or a possible profit of $40,000 or $50,000, which he will certainly have oarned. If he gets It, by several years of hard work for the direct benefit, not of one Industry, but of the whole community or you and mo and the circulation or this paper. Tho most expensive advertisement In The Bul letin's recent Development Number, for Instance, contained no reference to the advertiser. Another of our advertisers has been running an ad In which he says, "If you don't buy In our addition, buy soinewhoro olso in Dend." This Is selfish, lie knows that the buyer knows, If his competi tor's lot Is a poor Investment, that his lot also Is a poor Investment. If his competitor's miserable little lot Is a good Investment, then his own non pareil paragon or a lot must bo nil unparalloled bargain. Let's bo sel fish. Ono year ago, when Bond was men tioned In the Urge cities, even In Portland, nlnoty-nlne out of every hundrad nti angers said, "Whero's Bend?" Today, nlnety-nlno out of overy hundred know somothlng about It; many know much about It; some know all about It; nnd nearly every one knows It favorably. This has been brought about by great expen diture, great effort and untiring la bor. Men and women have worked 12 to 18 hours a day, not for a few days but steadily, month after month, for more than a year. The windows of offices In cities many; miles from Bend havo been lighted In her ser vice far Into the night. One organi zation has collected $20,000 and ex pended $40,000 In this work. Somo BE COMFORTABLE ME WELL DRESSED. How? Hy Kcttinu your clothes where they sell good things thnt look well nnd wear well nnd cost little. A full line of the famous Hart, Schaffner (Sb Marx Clothing nnd everything you will want for the summer in Suits, Hnts, Shirts, Under clothing, Shoes, etc. R. M. SMITH CLOTHING CO. WALL STKI2UT. ot theso people hnvo been paid for what thoy lmvo done. Otlioru ex pect to bo paid. This Is sslfUh; hut to do such things demands groat faith In our town, steadfast loyalty to tho town's best Interests, far-sighted, unselfish methods and tremendous cournge. Lot's bo solflsh. A bank takes Its financial pen from behind fts monetary ear, rolls up its aristocratic sleeves and Imports hogs. It does this to build tip tho country and so build up Its deposits. This Is Mllish. A corporation donates a lot for a church. If they wero unselfish, thoy would donate tho money to al low tho church to buy and build In soma ether addition; hut they donnto a lot so that the church will bo built In their own addition. This Is Hellish. Thon thoro are those men who put $100,000, moro or less. Into an elec tric plant in a town so now and small that they cannot get their inurty out for years. But they know that ulti mately thoy will mako Imroeiww pi.' Its. This Is almost hut not unit tut selfish as those men who li'illd mills costing a million dollars aplc, neh employing 600 men or more. True, the town would not amount "i m-t If It wero not for such men. mil they aro purely selfish. And In burst of solflshnoss almost unheard of the railroads havo spent Jsa.OOO.dOO .vid thon In addition hnvo done .in re for Itoud than wo have ever known of their doing for any other town. That they would do this makes them overlostlngly desorvlng of oii gratitude and assistance, "tut wo will forget this soma ds In ou pnde over things which tho rnllroatti have made vsslhlc That the railroads could do for any town what thoy havo done u id are doing for Bend would bo only because the town was so overwhelming" the one city or Its region that no Intelli gent observer could deny It. Thti experienced and far-seeing rllni.id men would not dnro gtvn Bend such pro'trentlal avortlslng If thoy did not know that Bend will become and re main for all tlmo tho largest Inland city In Oregon. Theso railroad mon, bankers, lum bermen, real estato mon, development workers, those Investors and adver tisers, would not bo surprised to seo Bend become tho largest Inland city between tho coast and tho Mississippi valley; and it will not bo their fault If It docs not. But whethor Bend has a quarter of a million Inhabitants or 15,000, It rests with us who aro now living In Bend to encourage theso men work with thoin cordially and loyally to build and uphold Bend's reputation. This will bu selfish j but let's bo solflsh. Lot's begin now. If a man comes to Bend from Hod- mond, Burns cfr Prlnovlllo with a fav arable Impression or these neighbors, lot him find no man In Dond,who will fall to say overy good and tr'o thing that ho canto send tho visitor nut of Crcgon with that Impression unahnng. od or enhanced. If ha ooiiius .vll'i a bud Impression, !et vur limn ho me(s endeavor to -mnt It and mako him seo all 'ie inn! thon- U In our neighbors. ir a man comes to Band to buy a farm, lot hi in find not ono iiinu who docs not encourage him to buy und thon help him to start right by put ting him In correspondence with tho agronomy dopartmont or tho Orogon Agricultural Colloge at Corvallls. If a fannor will follow tho Instructions ho receives from that source, ho will produco results unsurpassod any where almost. If ho will not follow tho Instructions of those who know, ho would fall In tho Garden of ICdcn. If a man comes to Bend to buy a lot, help him to buy, not your lot, hut tho lot he Is considering or tho kind of lot ho wants. If Bond Is to bo a city, there Is not a platted lot that Is I nut a good Investment; and tut no In tending -buyer find a man In Baud Uio does not onrourago him. ir n man comes to Bend to llvo or to ostnhllsh n business, lot's hslp him to select tho plncu host lit tod for his puriHiso, whether It be our lot, yours or another's. In short, lot us begin now, and rontlnuu forever, to pull together for tho good or llend, tho newcomer, tho Investor and our selves. I.ct's bo selfish. And what ever other Impression n visitor cor rles away from Central Oregon, lot's ho certain thnt he goes away with tho reeling that at Bend ho round the most hospitable pcoplu nnd the sq II ar ea t lot or loyal cltliens that ho has round anywhere In the world. Tho open season ror doer Is rrom Aiilfiist 1 to Novemlxir I, nnd all who go out In quest or game urn required by law to provide thomsolvcs with a license hoforo they start. Tho open season ror "dear" Is the year round, and at the ond or tin qupst n II oense Is required If the hunter has been successful. The nrtlelw by John II. Wlmor. In reply to the recant lotur of J. it. Couoh. w not received In tlmo for publication this week but will uppenr In tho next Issue. According to the Tlmos-llcrnld, tho population of Burns Is "Hearing tho lfiOO mark." iiiitKimmY ok oivicials. L'iiIIimI Htntc. President William II. Tnft Vlco President ..James 8. Sherman Secretary of Stato ...... P. c. Knox Secretnry of Troasury .K. MacVeagh Secrrlary of Interior ..W. L. Klsliar Seorctnry or War If. Htlmson Secretary or Commerce nnd Ubflr . . .Ohirloa Nagol Secretary or Navy 0h. Von ) Meter Secretary or Agriculture Jas. Wilson Postmaster doners! . K. II. Illtaheock Attorney Cenoral O. W. Wlakerslum titnte. Oovornor Oswald Wen Secretary ot Stato ....II. W. Olcott Troasuror Thos. II. Ka Atty Oonoral ......A. M. Crnwrord Superintendent Publlo Instruction . . L. It. Alderman State Printer W. B. Dunlwuy Commissioner Labor Statistics .... O. P. Hoff Onmo Warden v. L. Flnloy Stato Knglneor ..... .John II. Lol. United Stales Senators Oeorgo B. Chamborlaln .......Jonathan lloiirno, Jr. Congressmen A. W. Latterly W. C. Itawloy. Seventh Judicial District. Judgo W. L, Bradshaw Atlornoy Krcd W Wilson Crook County. Judgo H. c. Bills Clork Wnrron Brown Shorlff T. N. Balfour Treasurer Ralph Jordan Asiomor J, D, LnFollctto School 8upL II, A. Ford Coronor Dr. K. O. llydo, Surveyor Frod A. ICIco Commissioners ...... It. II Bayley , . Jamos Illco 'I he Courts, Circuit Meets first Monday In May and third Monday In October. Probata Moots first Monday In oach month. Commissioners' Moots first Wed nesday In January, March, May, July, Beptombor and Novombor, llend School District No. Itt. Directors II. J. Ovorturf, Ohmn F. M. Uay Clyde- M. McKay Clork Al Iss Marlon Wlwsl City or 'llend. Marof ,,., ,.,.,, G, P. Ptitniiin llccsorder II, O. Bills Troueuror II, J, Ovcrtyrf Chief or I'ollco B. B. Roberts OR Bnglnoor ..,. Oeorgo 8. Young Councilman ..,., II. B. Allen A. L. French M. S. Lntlln ,S. J, Spencer John Stoldl J. II. Wenandy OAltl) OF TIIANKH. To tho many friends nnd In thn momhora nr tho Bond luilgii ot Masons who sliownd so ninny kindnesses dur ing tho Inst Illness nnd subsequent tu tho death ot Mr, Boilers, wo denim to uxprohs our most sincere thanks. MI1H. W. II. BHLLHItB. MHB. OAltHIW WILMAMH. MIBH LAURA WILLIAMS. 1 lilies & Davidson's harbor shop Is located now, temporarily, on Oregon street. In tho old Tnggart Hotel building- Thrco Rood bnrbers to sorvo you, In order tqdean up the odds and ends on all low cut shoes J will make the following prices AH $4.00 oxfords, now. $2.70 All $4.50 oxfords, now $3. 1 5 All $5.00 oxfords, now $3,70 30 per cent discount on all summer suits They wont last long at these low prices A. L. FRENCH Oregon Strcot We Have Taken Over LUMBER of the Pine Forest Lumber Co., and are in a position to fill orders of any size. In addition we carry a full line of Building Material Lime, Cement, Plaster Brick and Fire Clay. Also COAL and LAND PLASTER. Overturf-Davis-Miller Co. Bend, Oregon, McCORMICK MOWER Wears longer than any other and gives better service. ' For Sale by , !- ij I MCANH HOMBTIIINI2, (It. II. Mlllor, O.-W. It. & N. (Jo.) I wish to coiutriUulnto you ou your Issue ot July It. It Is a credit to you and to Bond. Vlvn sections and for-ly-four pnges menu somiithliiR. Thn doer hoiixoii oprnx AukuhI 1 tuiil you villi need n license lo no hiiutliiK Applications at Tho llulliw till llllll'O. The Bulletin lias n supply of nppll. cation blanks for liuntliiK llcenxe vthlrli an) ono run scvuro by calling lit this mitre. the fintlre Stock of : : : : x I : : ...,$ , i 2 M&i BEND "T fr. w :, I' :'l l K . . I'V-I